4346…Rush Limbaugh Controversy
It is similar to what is happening at St. Paul’s in Ottawa. Sandra Fluke is a 30 year old student at Georgetown University, a Roman Catholic University in Washington, District…
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To Be Fair
What’s “fair” in politics. Is is necessary to do everything you’ll say you do, and nothing of what you say you won’t and don’t like? A clear cut answer would…
Canadian Deindustrialization
I thought I had been reading Jim’s posts carefully enough, but I was still kind of stunned when I did a quick stat check to respond to a comment on…
Forum choices should be respected
Momentous.ca Corp. v. Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball Ltd., 2012 SCC 9 holds that, where parties have selected a forum to resolve disputes they should, generally, be held to…
Sledgehammer against refugees
In recent days Jason Kenney, the federal immigration minister, has proposed tightening some of the rules regarding refugee claims. I have these thoughts. First, it is true that there are…
Christy’s Right Hand Man Cares About What Diploma Mill Makers Do
AllTheDonorsWithTheirHandsOut GetWhatTheyNeedVille Yup, that’s right. It’s Bloy. Harry Bloy. Again. (Hint: look for the money quote, which is ‘People care about what we do.‘) .
Transfats, ANGRY BAIRDS!
Honest, a study came out about the effects of transfats and aggressive behaviour. "If the association between trans fats and aggressive behaviour proves to be causal, this adds further rationale…
A well-deserved slap in the chops
…to the greasy, deceitful Con man Dean Del Mastro. There will be no McCarthyite replay anytime soon at the amusingly-named House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy…
New from the right, stickers that read: "Don’t Re-Nig in 2012"
Whatever gave you the impression the right was racist and anti-Semitic? How silly of you.
ConCalls: How Secure Was CIMS and Your Data?
Sixth Estate has learned that if Pierre Poutine had just asked nicely (or bribed the right people?), they could have had a duplicate copy of CIMS, potentially. It’s not clear…
Yeah….
… that’s pretty much it. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Dear Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump,
(Credit: huntinglegends.com) Why do you justify killing big game animals on safari by calling yourselves hunters and by claiming that the kill can feed a village for a month? You…
Crass Manipulation About Iran’s Nuclear Intentions
Those who believe that the public is being as crassly manipulated about Iran as it was by the lies that served as prologue to the Iraqi invasion will find two…
If You Thought This War Was Futile Before
It’s safe to assume we, the West, are in the final phase of our hapless war in Afghanistan. We have made a real difference over the past decade. Unfortunately the…
G20: Another thug in blue identified
Toronto police officer Oliver Simpson is the fellow kicking protesters in the well-known photograph, above. Sounds like he was having a good day all around. Could Ontario’s relatively new Office…
The Alberta Advantage—for men only?
It seems the famous Alberta Advantage doesn’t apply to women. Alberta lags all other provinces except Newfoundland and Labrador in women’s wage parity with men. According to a report issued…
The Argosy nearly triples its one day visit record due to "Truro Sevens: Rugby Uncensored and Uncut"
Checking up on the Analytics for the Argosy today I was pretty surprised to find this: It shows not only the highest one day increase in visits to the website…
Parliament to debate abortion in April (and Jim Hughes declares the Canadian war on women’s reproductive rights)
Conservative Party backbencher Stephen Woodworth has put forward a motion that will result in a debate in Parliament on abortion in the guise of “when life begins,” in April. This…
The PQ’s nasty streak
Once again, the hérouxvilliste wing of the Parti Québécois has come to the fore, and disgraced what is left of that party’s reputation as a mildly progressive political formation. Now…
To Encourage the Others #nlpoli
Lots of people look to leaders in a crisis to see what lessons they can learn. Well, Kathy Dunderdale is special. She is an excellent example for any leader –…